Water management
Our primary uses of fresh water are in our steam generation plants in the US and for cooling underground electricity cables in the UK. For the later, the majority of the water is returned to source after use.
We do not have any operations in water stressed areas.
Our performance measure in this area is total water used. We also measure the source of the water we use.
Related policies
01 April 2009
Environment
Related metrics
24 January 2005
Water use
During 2010/11, we used approximately 4.8 million cubic metres (mcm) of fresh water for both operational and non-operational purposes across our operations. This equates to some 333 cubic metres per ...
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